Thursday, December 3, 2009
update
so yeah once again it has been awhile since i have written on here but here is an update of my life!! i have the most wonderfulest new boyfriend who i am so happy with and couldnt ask for a sweet person!! i have amazing friends who i love are in mylife!! this weekend i am looking forward to D-Now that is going on at my church!! it is kinda like a lock down but instead of staying at the church we stay at different homes that our youth paster pick out of us. Me and my best friend are leaders for highschool girls one!! i still dont no who is in my group but i am ready to see what God has in store for us this weekend!! it is going to be hard though being away from my boyfriend because it will be the longest time we have been apart since we started dating and even before that!! plus i cant text either cause our phones(just mine and kacys not the girls) are only used for like something important, not texting!! but im so happy with my life now!! i think God has blessed me with things that i love!! plus thanksgiving was pretty awesome in showing me how greatful i am and thankful for everything in my life!!
Sunday, November 29, 2009
The Kite Runner: A brief Study Guide
*role of women-
*betrayal- Amir shows big betrayal to his friend Hassan when he does not act to save Hassan when he was being raped and because he did not save him, Amir loses his friendship and makes his father loses his servants/friends and those memories haunt him for the rest of his life. It shows how betrayal is a horrible thing and that people should stand up.
*Brothers- Amir finds out that Hassan is actually his half-brother and it hurts him to know that he betraded his brother. Brotherhood is important in this book.
*Guilt- All through his life Amir feels guilty. His feels guilty for killing his mother during birth and now feels like Baba does not love him because of it and he feels guilty of his past when he does not save Hassan and how he made them leave him and Baba. It eats Amir inside and out and makes him feel like he is never good enough because of his past and he does not deserve a lot. Guilt is an ugly thing in the book
*Redemption
*Journey- Life is a big journey and the choices we make can either make our journey easy or hard.
*Father and Sons- Amir tried his whole life to get the attention from Baba and he only got it when he did something important like win the kite tourament. IN society it is important to have a father and son relationship
*Class distinction- when you go up in a high class like Amir it is hard to see how life really was and because of his father, Amir got out of a lot of trouble like in the class room or with bullies
*Parallelism-
*Character foils- Amir/Hassan, Hassan is a foil of Amir and it shows how Amir is a coward and not loyal when it comes to life and standing up for himself. Hassan alwasy did nice things for Amir and helped him and stood up for him and his self, down to his last breathe. Ali/Baba, Ali is a foil of Baba because we see how a real father should be to his son. Ali loves Hassan like a father should love a son and Baba never really treated Amir like a father should treat a son and Amir had to always fight to get the attention of Baba, Hassan always had the attention of Ali
*Foreshadowing- During the beginning of the book, at the end of the chapters, Amir always foreshadowed something bad was going to happen. Like the end of life in homeland like he knew it. It opened up when Hassan was about to get raped and how Amir never saved him and that ended his childhood is a bad way.
*Flashback-the beginning of the book opens up when Amir is in the United States and and then it flashs back to his childhood. The first half of the book is a big flashback.. PLus all through the book Amir always flashed back to when he watched Hassan get raped.
Setting- 1. It took place when Hitler was in town and he was trying to kill off a lot of people. 2. the culture of Pashtun is very important to everyone and they had to always pray at a certain time. 3. Hazara vs. Pashtun was a lot like Jews vs. Germans and how the germans hated the jews and how they wanted to get rid of them. 4. They lived during a time of poverty and how most people lived days without food and servants, most did anyways 5. There was a big war in Afgan. and it effected a lot of people
5 Minor characters- 1. Farid he is the texi driver who at first does not like Amir and his returnal but once he finds out why Amir really returns he ends up helping him out. 2. Kaka Sharif- Soraya's uncle, who has connections in the INS and helps Amir get Sohrab a visa into the United States. 3. Raymond Andrews- The official at the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan who makes Amir realize the difficulties he will encounter if he attempts to adopt Sohrab. 4. Assef- he bullied Hassan and also Amir and ends up really beating Amir. 5. Soraya- Amir's wife and she had a lot was with Amir and helped him a lot and cared for Amir
5 Symbols- 1. The two kite fights is a symbol of Amir and Hassan. 2. The Pomegranate Tree is a symbol of Amir and Hassan's realtionship. 3. Amir's scar after he gets beaten by Assef. It reminds him of Hassan and shows is brotherhood. 4. The slingshots is a symbol of standing up for yourself. 5.
*betrayal- Amir shows big betrayal to his friend Hassan when he does not act to save Hassan when he was being raped and because he did not save him, Amir loses his friendship and makes his father loses his servants/friends and those memories haunt him for the rest of his life. It shows how betrayal is a horrible thing and that people should stand up.
*Brothers- Amir finds out that Hassan is actually his half-brother and it hurts him to know that he betraded his brother. Brotherhood is important in this book.
*Guilt- All through his life Amir feels guilty. His feels guilty for killing his mother during birth and now feels like Baba does not love him because of it and he feels guilty of his past when he does not save Hassan and how he made them leave him and Baba. It eats Amir inside and out and makes him feel like he is never good enough because of his past and he does not deserve a lot. Guilt is an ugly thing in the book
*Redemption
*Journey- Life is a big journey and the choices we make can either make our journey easy or hard.
*Father and Sons- Amir tried his whole life to get the attention from Baba and he only got it when he did something important like win the kite tourament. IN society it is important to have a father and son relationship
*Class distinction- when you go up in a high class like Amir it is hard to see how life really was and because of his father, Amir got out of a lot of trouble like in the class room or with bullies
*Parallelism-
*Character foils- Amir/Hassan, Hassan is a foil of Amir and it shows how Amir is a coward and not loyal when it comes to life and standing up for himself. Hassan alwasy did nice things for Amir and helped him and stood up for him and his self, down to his last breathe. Ali/Baba, Ali is a foil of Baba because we see how a real father should be to his son. Ali loves Hassan like a father should love a son and Baba never really treated Amir like a father should treat a son and Amir had to always fight to get the attention of Baba, Hassan always had the attention of Ali
*Foreshadowing- During the beginning of the book, at the end of the chapters, Amir always foreshadowed something bad was going to happen. Like the end of life in homeland like he knew it. It opened up when Hassan was about to get raped and how Amir never saved him and that ended his childhood is a bad way.
*Flashback-the beginning of the book opens up when Amir is in the United States and and then it flashs back to his childhood. The first half of the book is a big flashback.. PLus all through the book Amir always flashed back to when he watched Hassan get raped.
Setting- 1. It took place when Hitler was in town and he was trying to kill off a lot of people. 2. the culture of Pashtun is very important to everyone and they had to always pray at a certain time. 3. Hazara vs. Pashtun was a lot like Jews vs. Germans and how the germans hated the jews and how they wanted to get rid of them. 4. They lived during a time of poverty and how most people lived days without food and servants, most did anyways 5. There was a big war in Afgan. and it effected a lot of people
5 Minor characters- 1. Farid he is the texi driver who at first does not like Amir and his returnal but once he finds out why Amir really returns he ends up helping him out. 2. Kaka Sharif- Soraya's uncle, who has connections in the INS and helps Amir get Sohrab a visa into the United States. 3. Raymond Andrews- The official at the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan who makes Amir realize the difficulties he will encounter if he attempts to adopt Sohrab. 4. Assef- he bullied Hassan and also Amir and ends up really beating Amir. 5. Soraya- Amir's wife and she had a lot was with Amir and helped him a lot and cared for Amir
5 Symbols- 1. The two kite fights is a symbol of Amir and Hassan. 2. The Pomegranate Tree is a symbol of Amir and Hassan's realtionship. 3. Amir's scar after he gets beaten by Assef. It reminds him of Hassan and shows is brotherhood. 4. The slingshots is a symbol of standing up for yourself. 5.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
been a while
so its totally been a while since i have been on here to blog, me and my boyfriend broke up but after looking at it, i am glad because the way he ended up treating me at the end was horrible and i didnt need that in my life but now i found someone else and he treats me like a freakin princess!! i couldnt ask for a better person, no we dont date yet, he did ask me out but i decided that i wanted to wait since me and my ex just got out of a relationship!! everything right now in my life is going well, i have great friends and i really love all of them and i love making new friends!!
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
so this weekend was a busy weekend for me, i had the haunted house all week long and that was very much tiring...im glad but sad that it is over with, no more late nights(3 in the morning late nights) and no annoying people and having to be on my knees a lot(they are swollen from that) but im sad that i wont be able to see my friends every night but im sure i will see them outside the haunted house. going on hardly any sleep was no fun for me!! thats for sure!! but all in all this weekend was ok..not the busy because my boyfriend still was being a jerk but ever since we had a talk yesterday, he has done an 180!! which makes me happy...its great to have my boyfriend back with me!! hopefully he will stay!!
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
not a happy camper
ok so really!! this weekend was ok for me because i got to hang with my friends and even play come beer pong(i am sooo horrible at that game but i will get better i promise that) and we had an amazing turnout for the haunted house but idk for some reason my crazy butt boyfriend didnt hardly talk to me at all...his phone was dead most of the time or he was with his friends or family...he called only a couple of times and yeah even came down for a few and had lunch with me(only cause he had to come down for the regents test but he didnt have to see me i get that) but monday night i didnt hardly talk to him and today he had to study instead of walk me to my class so right now i am not too happy at my boyfriend...hopefully he will do something sweet to make up for it...he normally does but idk...and it is funny how once a boy i use to like finds out i have a boyfriend..he starts texting me nonstop and what not!!!!! im not happy!!
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Compare/Contrast paper
Whoever would have thought that a children’s movie that brightens the lives of many and causes people to smile would be a spinoff of a sixth century dramatic, tragedy play? Both are one in the same in many aspects; however, many never make the connection of the two because the two are written for different purposes. Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, is a play that starts with a horrible event and continues to have terrible events all throughout the play until the very end. It is a tragedy play that is not suppose to make people laugh; however, there is a movie that is written off the play that is suppose to make people laugh, and that children enjoy to watch. It is a famous Disney movie that most people have not seen or have not heard of. Walt Disney’s movie, The Lion King, has a different idea from Hamlet, yet The Lion King and Hamlet both share many character traits, themes, and plots.
At the beginning of Hamlet, in the very first screen, Hamlet is visited by the ghost of his father. Hamlet was informed by the ghost about his father’s death and how his uncle killed his father for the kingdom and the queen. The ghost told Hamlet to get revenge on his uncle for the murder and Hamlet agrees to do so. In the Lion King, Simba is also visited by his father’s ghost; however, the ghost does not appear at the beginning of the play and his father’s ghost does not tell Simba who really killed his father. Simba is left alone still thinking that he killed his father, not anyone else. That is one thing that is different from the movie and the book, in the book, the character knows who killed his father and knows it is not him; on the other hand, in the movie, the character blames himself for the murder because he was tricked into thinking he did it by the uncle. Since the ghost of Hamlet’s father visits Hamlet in the beginning of the play and tells Hamlet to get revenge against his father’s murder, the uncle, so Hamlet thinks about revenge throughout the whole play. Simba does not find out who actually murdered his father until the very end of the movie so revenge is not thought about throughout the movie. Simba actually thinks that he is the one that killed his father so he runs away but returns at the end. In both the play and the movie, the uncle ends up killing the king, the brother, for the kingdom. In Hamlet though, Claudius kills the brother for both the kingdom and for the queen. Scar never marries the queen, or wants to marry the queen in The Lion King.
In both the movie and the book, both main characters have two best friends. Hamlet has Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and Simba has Timon and Pumbaa; however, the best friends in each the movie and the book are totally different. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern ended up turning on their best friend Hamlet and actually turned out just being spies for the uncle, the new king, and the queen, Hamlet’s mother. They watched over Hamlet and reported everything back and sometimes they even tricked Hamlet just as the uncle and Hamlet’s mother had asked them to do. Timon and Pumbaa are true friends to Simba because they supported him and helped him become happy again. When Simba first met Timon and Pumbaa, Simba was very depressed but after hanging with Timon and Pumbaa, Simba was brought back to life. When the battle happened in Pride Rock, Simba’s kingdom, Timon and Pumbaa was right there beside Simba fighting with him even though that was not the kingdom where they lived; they just wanted to help a friend. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern never helped Hamlet at the end when the uncle is murdered. They were never true friends like Timon and Pumbaa were.
Both Hamlet and The Lion King illustrates the timeless theme that avarice is the root of all evil. In the movie as well as the book, the uncles lust for what they cannot have which is the kingdom and as well as the power. However, the uncles’ greed costs them not only the kingdom and power, but their lives as well. The murder of the uncles happens differently in the movie than the book. In the movie, Simba never actually kills his uncle. Simba finds out that it was his uncle that killed his father not him and now Simba is angered with revenge against his uncle. Simba fights with Scar for a while but ends up flipping him off of a cliff where the Hyenas kill Scar, not Simba. In the book, Hamlet kills Claudius himself without any help. Even though the murder happened differently, both uncles still die because they first murdered, and the reason why they first murdered was because of greed and desire of what they could not have. The theme between Hamlet and The Lion King is the main thing these two have in common. That is how the movie was formed. Walt Disney created The Lion King from the theme of Hamlet. Many people will never know that because the two are in two different categories; one is a tragedy play and one is a children’s movie. The two different categories is the main difference between the two.
Two different things, yet one in the same, that is how The Lion King and Hamlet are. Once someone reads the play Hamlet, the comparison is not hard to recognize. Of course with everything in the world, not everything is the exactly the same. There will always be something different between two objects, or subjects. It is pretty easy to see the differences between The Lion King and Hamlet because one is about people and the other is about lions. These two shows everyone that even though they can be totally different, they can be the same at the same time.
At the beginning of Hamlet, in the very first screen, Hamlet is visited by the ghost of his father. Hamlet was informed by the ghost about his father’s death and how his uncle killed his father for the kingdom and the queen. The ghost told Hamlet to get revenge on his uncle for the murder and Hamlet agrees to do so. In the Lion King, Simba is also visited by his father’s ghost; however, the ghost does not appear at the beginning of the play and his father’s ghost does not tell Simba who really killed his father. Simba is left alone still thinking that he killed his father, not anyone else. That is one thing that is different from the movie and the book, in the book, the character knows who killed his father and knows it is not him; on the other hand, in the movie, the character blames himself for the murder because he was tricked into thinking he did it by the uncle. Since the ghost of Hamlet’s father visits Hamlet in the beginning of the play and tells Hamlet to get revenge against his father’s murder, the uncle, so Hamlet thinks about revenge throughout the whole play. Simba does not find out who actually murdered his father until the very end of the movie so revenge is not thought about throughout the movie. Simba actually thinks that he is the one that killed his father so he runs away but returns at the end. In both the play and the movie, the uncle ends up killing the king, the brother, for the kingdom. In Hamlet though, Claudius kills the brother for both the kingdom and for the queen. Scar never marries the queen, or wants to marry the queen in The Lion King.
In both the movie and the book, both main characters have two best friends. Hamlet has Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and Simba has Timon and Pumbaa; however, the best friends in each the movie and the book are totally different. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern ended up turning on their best friend Hamlet and actually turned out just being spies for the uncle, the new king, and the queen, Hamlet’s mother. They watched over Hamlet and reported everything back and sometimes they even tricked Hamlet just as the uncle and Hamlet’s mother had asked them to do. Timon and Pumbaa are true friends to Simba because they supported him and helped him become happy again. When Simba first met Timon and Pumbaa, Simba was very depressed but after hanging with Timon and Pumbaa, Simba was brought back to life. When the battle happened in Pride Rock, Simba’s kingdom, Timon and Pumbaa was right there beside Simba fighting with him even though that was not the kingdom where they lived; they just wanted to help a friend. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern never helped Hamlet at the end when the uncle is murdered. They were never true friends like Timon and Pumbaa were.
Both Hamlet and The Lion King illustrates the timeless theme that avarice is the root of all evil. In the movie as well as the book, the uncles lust for what they cannot have which is the kingdom and as well as the power. However, the uncles’ greed costs them not only the kingdom and power, but their lives as well. The murder of the uncles happens differently in the movie than the book. In the movie, Simba never actually kills his uncle. Simba finds out that it was his uncle that killed his father not him and now Simba is angered with revenge against his uncle. Simba fights with Scar for a while but ends up flipping him off of a cliff where the Hyenas kill Scar, not Simba. In the book, Hamlet kills Claudius himself without any help. Even though the murder happened differently, both uncles still die because they first murdered, and the reason why they first murdered was because of greed and desire of what they could not have. The theme between Hamlet and The Lion King is the main thing these two have in common. That is how the movie was formed. Walt Disney created The Lion King from the theme of Hamlet. Many people will never know that because the two are in two different categories; one is a tragedy play and one is a children’s movie. The two different categories is the main difference between the two.
Two different things, yet one in the same, that is how The Lion King and Hamlet are. Once someone reads the play Hamlet, the comparison is not hard to recognize. Of course with everything in the world, not everything is the exactly the same. There will always be something different between two objects, or subjects. It is pretty easy to see the differences between The Lion King and Hamlet because one is about people and the other is about lions. These two shows everyone that even though they can be totally different, they can be the same at the same time.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
ummm....yeah
so basically this week has not gone the way i have hoped it will go....basically all i need is prayer right now and God by my side to help me get through it!! gosh my life is like a roller coaster, one week it is up and the next it is down!! why am i so confusing, well actually, why is my life so confusing!!
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